This is sounding better, just gonna check the timings and will decide in the morning. Managed to get one of the last Spesh Pitch's. Can't wait to give it a outing.
curtis - there will be options of missing out one or two loops if that helps. There's some great tracks in the Chilterns 🙂
Great day out everyone! Pics & vid I took are here:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/9draytoncourt/ChilternsJune2009?feat=directlink
Sorry I didn't get everyone, shot to shot time is too slow!
Smudge - I'll drop you a mail otherwise I'll forget your user ID on here
For those who showed interest in the car, more info on my website:
www.mymojo.co.uk
😉
Cheers!
Neil
Well, what a day! Great to meet so many new people and glad that the first-time visitors to the Chilterns were suitably impressed with the quality of the trails 🙂
Sorry for lecturing before we started riding but feel extremely strongly that other trail users should not have an opportunity to moan about mountain bikers. Smiley faces rule but confess to being so disappointed at the number of walkers on the Warnscombe Lane descent - that needs to be ridden f a s t 8)
I see that the pub are serving London Pride again and what a test of willpower! Always nice to finish up there and natter about the day's riding.
Thanks again to the Chiltern locals who helped - nickc and r6ymy - and also those who volunteered.
Good pics Neil, that's another top-notch Chilterns descent!
Neil I love your motor, I was at the wheels event too, I took my 1953 Morris Oxford MO along.
Its always a great evening there with so many different and varied vehicles to look at.
Great to meet you all, and thanks for the organisation...and the inner tubes. Can't remember the last time I flatted twice in a ride. It was good to not have the silliest car for a change :-). Witney chaps...got your card, thanks. Kids allowing, would be great to tag along sometime. Pete...have a great time in the Alps! Cheers.
Thanks everyone for a great day 🙂 We will definately be re-visiting the Chilterns in the near future.
Yes, keep in touch Neil, you're more than welcome to join up with us.
oh yes, thanks for the jaffa cakes and flapjack 😉
And special thanks to CG for organising the ride
did nickc touch anyone in inappropriate places?
he does that 🙁
pedalhead = Mark 😉
Big grin on the face of Neil (me) and John today. Thanks to everyone that organised and doled out the flapjack.
I think the conjestion on the Warnscombe Lane descent might have been my fault. Last time I rode that, I shredded a rear tire. I may be jinked.
Hope to see some of you again sometime on another STW Forum ride.
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I managed to keep my hands to myself thank you....
PePPeR - funny that you were at the wheels event last week! So which of today's gang were you, struggling to work it out...!
thanks for a good ride and showing me some great trails ,,
the two other singlespeeds were great on the ups,,showed us all the way,,
ok i did walk on a few parts of some hills,on my single speed preston
Nice to ride with a big group even if we did get split up later. Was good to ride with new faces even if I can't remember half of your names! 😳 Be good to do another ride soon. I was the one on the blue inbred.
yeah thanks for organising that cinnamon girl. Great day.
My legs are tingling for more... or is that the stingers & brambles!
an idea so the group doesn't have to split could be to do an extended loop for the faster riders while the others have lunch/drink/break
I mentioned it to a few riders, but for anyone who didn't hear/see leaflets there is a British Heart Foundation charity ride in the Chilterns with lots of nice singletrack.
see http://www.bhf.org.uk/get_involved/take_part_in_our_events/event_finder/view_event.aspx?ps=1000437
& thanks for the lift home boobs - I only got a small telling off (as people were already here so she couldn't go mental).
Thanks to everyone who proposed and organised yesterdays ride. It was a great turnout! A pleasant surprise to see some familiar faces from way back (and some unusual bikes, fellow one-gear-wonders! Props to Ade for piloting such an oddity...)
Looking forward to the next one.
Would anyone be able to send me a copy of the route please? Tracklogs if possible. Cheers!
Pedalhead YGM
Super thanks!
Thanks all for a good day out. Think a started to regret the choice of riding the round trip from Oxford to Watlington on about mile 5 of my journey home. Does anyone have a rough idea of how far we went (given that the group ended up on about three differing rides by the end of it :D)
Anyone know the puncture tally?
Sorry but I can't remember everyone's names either 😳 But it was easy for you guys cos there were only two girlies on the ride 😀
smudge - will send you a gpx route, and some others too.
singletracksurfer - you beat me to it!
I think nickc behaved himself - does he not normally then?
I can claim one puncture. Bloomin flints.
Neil - whats the british grid ref for that decent on your vidio clip ?
37.5km with 850 meters of climbing if you dropped down to the Hollandridge trail after Northend, nr the end of the ride.
36km & 780 meters climbing, if you didn't.
Trimix - 772862
Trimix - try SU772861
CG - you were beaten to it again!
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Doh! I'm paying for broadband but don't get broadband speed. BT are rubbish!
Too busy riding to take any decent photos, but I've uploaded the few I did take....[url= http://markgoldie.smugmug.com/gallery/8646636_5XRo2#570625455_QVY6n ]HERE[/url].
Cinnamon / Neil, thanks for that. It looks different in the dry 🙂
Um, just been s****ing cos there was a male ar$e shot - reckon it must be a first on STW 😀
Only problem was next pic yours truly was in it and I HATE having my pic taken 😥
Lovely to meet some old friends and make some new ones. Thanks to those that made it happen. Loved the local history lessons from James. Really enjoyed pedaling back home and subsequent guilt-free calorie-binge :^)
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Great ride yesterday,first time down that way but won't be the last!!Loved riding through the woods,shame the flints got me near the end!!Thanks CG
Neil I wasn't there, I was unable to make it due to being safety organiser and race marshall at the Farnborough Flier, a 12km multi terrain race we hold on the Oxfordhsire/Warwickshire border.
PePPeR - ah I'm with you! Say hello if you see me & the car again!
smudge - ygm
Thanks CG 8)
will catch up with you again when we're next down
after the ride I am suddenly all fired up to do some more riding and leave the road bike alone for a bit,,
still need more power grommet to keep up with those other two single speed riders,,, but they were tall and taller
and I am keen to try out a 29er,,
Thank you CG for organizing a great day out. It was great to meet loads of new people. Legs are surprisingly ok today!
Tooundred!
The longer loop group (all two of us) covered 46.5k and 1084m of climbing.
nikc, did you finish off with the Dame Alice descent?
Nice to meet everyone, after reading all the posts I'm starting to work out who everyone was!
Ade, was the Preston your design? Let me know if you want to ride around the area again and I'll bring my singlespeed to keep you company.
pedalhead, if you want to do a local ride sometime drop me a line, we're used to starting early to be back before noon. I've got two teenage daughters so could probably sort you out with a babysitter too!
Er, no we...errr...went to the pub 😳
After waiting for a bit, we ended up at Xmas Common, to our surprise we found ourselves outside a very nice pub, it seemed rude not to really...Came down the Pyrton descent
[iAde, was the Preston your design? Let me know if you want to ride around the area again and I'll bring my singlespeed to keep you company]
Jon whyte and I worked together from 1997 to 2000 the basic concept was mine but we both did all the detail
i would love to ride the area again,, i think i may try to do the heart foundation ride
pedalhead, if you want to do a local ride sometime drop me a line, we're used to starting early to be back before noon. I've got two teenage daughters so could probably sort you out with a babysitter too!
Superb, thanks mate. I generally get some time every other weekend, so I'll definitely be in touch, cheers!
/cof/ longer loop - I did 96km on Sunday incl pootling to and from the ride :^)
Nick - 'twas indeed a good pub, you clearly need to adjust your opinion of pork scratchings though!
Ade - you did well despite the wild machine you were riding (yes, and that's coming from me on a wheeled gasworks)! I think singlespeeds work well around the Chilts; most hills are quick blast, it's not gnarl enough to warrant big a sproingy bike and they are relatively light for hoiking over stiles (ahem)...
That Pyrton descent was a great way to end a ride :-)... mind you, held back a little on the corners for the possible walkers!
The dusty descent mid morning.. gotta go back to do that earlier in the day... Or get a petepoddy bell 😉